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Deltacloud API to be certified and managed by DTMF in future

Red Hat has extended its
Cloud
Foundations initiative, claiming that it now offers the only cloud computing
stack that does not lock customers in. The firm has also submitted its cloud API
for certification as an open standard.

Announced in June, Red Hat's Cloud Foundations: Edition One, is based on
vendor-neutral APIs. Now complete, this delivers the portability and choice that
customers need to avoid being locked into a single cloud provider, according to
the firm.

"This is crucial for customers as the computing world evolves to the cloud,"
said Paul Cormier, Red Hat executive vice president for products and
technologies.

Only two companies can deliver a complete top-to-bottom stack for cloud
computing, Cormier claimed; Red Hat and Microsoft.

Building on what the firm's chief executive Jim Whitehurst
told
V3.co.uk in June, Cormier re-iterated Red Hat's commitment to an
open cloud architecture that gives customers choice at every level of the stack.

As part of this, Red Hat said it has submitted the specifications for its
Deltacloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), claiming it as a
step forward in offering application portability across different cloud
computing environments.

Unveiled last year, Deltacloud allows developers to build an application that
can run across different cloud stacks, according to Red Hat. The DTMF will also
manage the API in future, Red Hat said.

"We don’t want Deltacloud to be under the control of any one vendor, and that
includes Red Hat," said Cormier.

Red Hat also announced that animation studio DreamWorks has committed to
using Cloud Foundations in its production pipeline in future.